The CDC released updated guidelines on treating sexually transmitted infections July 22.

The CDC will "probably" recommend children under age 12 who aren't yet eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine to wear masks in school this fall, President Joe Biden said during a July 21 CNN town hall. 

Our collective experience over the past 18 months has revealed this simple truth: Each of us is only as healthy as the most vulnerable among us. As healthcare leaders, we can no longer support a system that lets work schedules, social and economic factors, and institutional bias dictate who receives care. It is long past time to adopt a patient-centric care model that meets each person exactly where they are.

Patients who arrive at the hospital via an ambulance are more likely to develop superbug colonization or infection, according to findings published July 21 in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

The amount of people experiencing rare breakthrough COVID-19 infections will increase as more transmissible variants spread across the country, but health experts aren't alarmed, NPR reported July 21.

Springfield, Mo.-based CoxHealth has created a new nursing position as nursing demand rises.

The CDC is monitoring 200 people across 27 states who may have been exposed to monkeypox after a person who traveled from Nigeria to the U.S was recently diagnosed with the rare illness. 

Amid a COVID-19 surge, Erik Frederick, chief administrative officer at Springfield, Mo.-based Mercy Hospital, has provided demographic details on the current patient census. 

Daily COVID-19 cases in the U.S. have risen 171 percent over the last two weeks, according to The New York Times.

Florence "SeeSee" Rigney, RN, retired from her role as a surgical nurse at Multicare Tacoma (Wash.) General Hospital this month at age 96.

For every two adult COVID-19 deaths, a child is left without a family caregiver, according to a CDC-led global assessment published July 20 in The Lancet. 

Recent data shows patients admitted to short-term acute care hospitals (STACHs) have increasingly complicated medical conditions. This has led many hospitals to seek support from experienced management partners in the long-term acute care hospital (LTACH) space to help address the unique needs of this critical population. While medically complex and critically ill patients make up only 5 percent of the U.S. patient population, they account for 50 percent of healthcare spending, magnifying the need to properly identify the most efficient care delivery pathways for these patients.1 Further, COVID-19 patients have led to additional growth in both critically ill and medically complex populations.

U.S. life expectancy fell to 77.3 years in 2020, marking a 1.5 year drop from 78.8 years in 2019, according to a July 21 CDC report. It's the largest one-year drop since World War II. 

The nation's public health emergency over the COVID-19 pandemic will take effect for at least another 90 days. 

A patient who recently had his gallbladder removed at Boca Raton (Fla.) Regional Hospital, part of Baptist Health, says the hospital lost the organ, Boca News Now reported July 21. 

The delta coronavirus variant now accounts for 83 percent of virus samples analyzed in the U.S., CDC Director Rochelle Wallensky, MD, said July 20, according to The Wall Street Journal.

About 200 Americans have reported symptoms potentially linked to "Havana syndrome," a mysterious illness first identified in 2016 among diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba, NBC News reported July 19.

Black patients are more likely to experience hospital-acquired illnesses or injuries than white patients within the same hospitals, according to a large analysis from the Urban Research Institute published July 20. 

Houston Methodist Hospital has identified its first COVID-19 hospitalization linked to the lambda variant, the Houston Chronicle reported July 19.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is urging healthcare providers in the state to remain vigilant amid a significant spike in Legionnaires' cases this summer.